Regents Review

ChinaAnd Japan

Classical China

• Geography• Rivers (Yellow earliest)• Desert (W and SW)• Mountains (W and SW)

Classical China

• Technology• Paper• Gunpowder• Compass• abacus

Classical China

• Beliefs• Confucianism• Mandate of Heaven• Order, place (influence of Taoism)

Zheng He

Trade Routes

• Mongols/Silk Roads• Cultural diffusion

• Ideas (ie religions)• technology

• Stirrup• Contribution to World History

Marco Polo

Japan

• Geography • Features

• Coastal population• Terrace farming• Few minerals• Volcanic soil

• Location

China & Japan

• Isolationism

Japan

• Influence of China and Korea• Feudalism (power spread out but

more centralized than Europe)• Code to live by

China-carved up

• Opium Wars• Treaty of Nanking

• Spheres of Influence• Boxer Rebellion

Meiji Restoration

• 1853 Mattew Perry• Desire for trade• Rapid modernization

Meiji Restoration

Chinese Empire crumbles

• Nationalists • Sun Yatsen & nationalism• Nationalists (Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-

shek)) • Communists

WWII

Mao Zedong

• Promised Land Reform• Gained support of Peasants• Great Leap Forward• Cultural Revolution